On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Kevin Oberman wrote: > Since the update of DPMS to support amd64 on March 2, it has broken > rather badly on my ThinkPad T43 laptop. The problem showed up on > 8-stable built on March 3 and is still present after an update to stable > of March 17. > > When in vty text mode, after the idle normal delay, the display blanks, > but the backlight remains on, so the P in DPMS seems to be less than > effective. At that point, the non-graphics display is dead. It never > comes back when characters are entered. I can't get the display to come > back without a reboot. > > I can, however, start X (and Gnome) and everything is fine. But > switching back to any vty results in a blank screen. > > Any idea what happened and if there is a fix or workaround? Any data I > can collect?
Have you tried kldloading vesa? Might be a workaround until you find a proper fix? Had a similar issue with my T23 at one stage on 7.0, after a suspend/resume cycle, which hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1 also helped .. no idea how the T43 might respond to the latter. FWIW, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
